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Manure Spreader Mechanics and Tips

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The host elaborates on how the ABI Classic Spreader functions. The PTO shaft, once engaged, drives the 'flappers' or 'smackers' located at the rear of the spreader, which are responsible for scattering the manure across the field. The hydraulic line, which he connected in the previous step, controls the rakers inside the spreader that move the manure towards these flappers. He estimates that it will take him about 1.5 hours to load the spreader with manure and approximately 15 minutes to spread it. He plans to focus on areas of the field with poor soil nutrition. A crucial tip he provides is to avoid spreading manure on a windy day, as it can scatter the material unevenly and create unpleasant conditions.

Goal: Learn the operational mechanics of the manure spreader and important considerations for effective spreading.

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  • ABI Classic Manure Spreader

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call them that spread the manure out now we've got probably probably about 12 big dump trailer loads of manure right here this is probably gonna take me an hour and a half to load up in 15 minutes to spread we've got some areas that are a poor soil nutrition right back over in here and that's what we're gonna be putting the manure on today so we'll toss the drone up in the air but that's how it works all this stuff works in sync to break manure up and smack it and spread it out all over the past year we want to spread a lot of manure on this past year we really don't have enough we haven't found a good source a reliable source of inexpensive manure for the farm yet so we're gonna have to make one one more little tidbit about this machine so manure spreader will build up basically a pile of manure at the back of it this has a gate that you can drop to empty it completely out so that's pretty nifty you just pull a little handle down here and release that and it dumps all the manure out of the machine so it won't have that caustic manure sitting in there rusting things up another little point to make don't spread manure on a windy day you'll see why

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